My craft room spills well beyond the doors of the actual room. I have bins of yarn in the basement. Wood and tile scraps in the shed… and sometimes even the garage. So, it’s safe to say, I’ll be participating in the monthly Craft Room Destash for a very long time. I’ve actually tried to adapt the rules of the challenge to every project I do… until I can walk around my craft room easily! This month, I decided to pull out leftover fence boards from the shed and make a quick and easy wooden outdoor flag.
Scrap Wood
I know not everyone has leftover scrap wood lying around. But, before we moved from our old house, we had to replace some of the fence boards. Basically, 1×6 pressure treated boards cut to about 5 feet each. Unfortunately, the boards we needed only came in 8-foot lengths, 10 or even 12 would have been perfect. But no, we had almost 3 feet left from each board.
Of course, IronFish wanted to just throw them out! And, of course, I said, “NO!”
We have no deck or patio in the backyard of the new house. The least we could do was use the scrap to build a landing when stepping out the back door.
IronFish still thought this was pointless. Especially because, at the time, we didn’t have a back door! Where the sliding doors should have been (and are in every other house the style of our in the neighborhood) windows had replaced it.
We knew we would eventually put a sliding door back in. Which we did about a year after moving in. We’ve been in the house for 3 years now, we still haven’t built a landing there…
Time to start using up the 20 or so pieces in the shed.
Tape and Paint
If you don’t have scrap lumber laying around, you can easily pick-up a single board at your local lumber yard. Most will even cut it to the length you want for little or no fee.
Painter’s tape and chalk paint make this super simple. Chalk paint dries so quickly, especially in the almost 90-degree heat I was painting in.
Start by taping off the top quarter of your board and paint that portion blue.
After a few minutes of dry time, retape along your nice clean edge of the blue paint. And, tape off the center third so the outer two thirds can be painted red.
And, paint it red!
Finally, tape off the red leaving the center portion to be painted white. After I painted the center stripe, I used a stencil to paint white stars on the blue portion.
Wooden Outdoor Flag
That’s it! I really think this could easily be adapted to any flag for any country.
I simply propped it against the house by my front door! Eek, I guess I need to add “power wash the house” to IronFish’s to-do list… (because I don’t want to do it myself, lol).
A few other tips… I have an overhang on my porch, which means, my flag isn’t going to get much more than the sun and maybe a little water if we have a big storm. I like a weathered look, so I’m not sealing the paint.
If you wanted to, you could pre-weather your flag with a bit of sanding. Or, if you don’t want it to weather, paint a coat of clear poly over the whole thing.
Monthly Craft Room De-Stash Challenge
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What a great way to reuse old wood! I love seeing all of the patriotic projects around this time of year.
What a super cute and patriotic way to use up wood planks! Great idea!
What a cute idea. I love patriotic things this time of year. glad I do have fence boards because this is a cute way to use them up.
What a great project! I have a few fence pickets in my garage that could be used for this! PInning!
I love any patriotic project. So glad you convinced him to keep the boards. So many projects are waiting to be done with those.
This is a fun project that I think I could handle! Love the star stencils with the swirl, too!
Such a cute patriotic craft! I love the stars with the spirals inside.
I love your patriotic crafts. The wreath, too. I love the look of the american flac, not so much the German one.. So I guess I will pass on patriotic crafts for myself, lol.
Funny thing is, I was thinking of making a German one as a gift for a good friend from Germany! I’m thinking of putting the American flag on one side and the German one on the other for her!
This is so cute! I like the unique spin on the flag board idea!
Great job. I love the idea and I really love the stars you picked to put on there. Nice.
This turned out beautifully! I love projects that make use of things you already have, like the scrap wood! #homemattersparty
I’m like you. I hate tossing wood out and got so mad at my hubby for burning some in the fire…grrr. Love what you did the extra pieces and basically a free home decor.
I have a specific pile I let him burn! Since pressure treated wood produces a toxic gas when burning, he stays away from any of that!!!
Great project! You are welcome to come over and link up this post at the patriotic party going on over on my blog now through July 4th!
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YOu can also link up your posts weekly at Thursday Favorite Things. The party starts every Thursday at (:00 a.m. EST and runs through Saturday at midnight.
Have a great 4th of July!
Thanks, headed there now!
Love these! We save scraps for projects too. I really like the stars and bars. Red White and Blue decor can stay out all summer. This post is Featured at Merry monday this week! Hope to see you back soon. See ya at Haven!!!
Yeah, thanks for the feature!